What long-running advertising campaign included commercials titled “Accident,” “Surgery,” “Viruses,” “Biohazard Suit,” “Self-Pity,” “Trainer,” and “Yoga”?

I seek an answer. Pray I find it here.

Copywriter Vinnie Chieco coined the name “iPod” when he was inspired by a famous line of dialogue from what movie, selected by the Vatican as one of the 45 best movies ever made?

The answer, please!

TODAY’S QUESTION

What recent blockbuster featured a performance by the software program MacinTalk as the villain?

Answer (or guess) in the comments. Your prize? Public glory.

Come back tomorrow for the answer.

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That question, again: The 2006 documentary loudQUIETloud is a film about what alternative band?

Answer: That’s the Pixies, known from shifting songs from a whisper to a scream on a dime.

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Quick and … well, maybe easy, maybe not:

Who’s the only musical artist to be featured in an iPod commercial and as the musical guest on Yo Gabba GabbaI‘s Super Music Friends Show?

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on Oct. 7, 2008

1) Last week, the third grade class at Gladys Wood Elementary school could earn extra credit by doing what?
2) Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa were just awarded the Nobel Prize in what category?
3) Last week, the McCain campaign pulled out of what midwest state, basically conceding its 17 electoral votes to Obama?
4) What two financial service companies are currently battling to take over Wachovia? (half point each)
5) What happened in Vegas led to charges of armed robbery, assault, and kidnapping, which may mean life behind bars for what now-convicted criminal?
6) Bill Ayres, Barack Obama’s terrorist pal, cofounded the radical left wing group the Weathermen. What Bob Dylan song gave the group its name?
7) Apple’s stock price fell 10% on Friday after a “citizen journalist” claimed who had suffered a severe heart attack?
8) Nickelsville, currently located in Discovery Park, has until Wednesday to move to a new location. What is Nickelsville?
9) Last Friday, about 50 women tried out for the Seattle Mist, an expansion team in what sports league?
10) You can no longer get a fish pedicure in Washington State because the Department of Licensing doesn’t believe you can properly do what to a live fish?

Answers:

1) watch the vice presidential debate
2) physics
3) Michigan
4) Citigroup and Wells Fargo
5) O. J. Simpson
6) “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
7) Steve Jobs
8) homeless encampment or tent city (or similar)
9) Lingerie Football League
10) sanitize it

Round 5 at the Old Pequliar on July 1, 2008.
Average score: 6.15/11 (17 teams)

Each of these songs was featured in a popular commercial. For a half point each, name the performing artist and the brand or product they were advertising. (If a song was used in multiple commercials, the correct answer is the earliest widespread example.)

Example: The correct answers for “Start Me Up” are the Rolling Stones and Microsoft (or Windows 95).

1) clip #1
2) clip #2
3) clip #3
4) clip #4
5) clip #5
6) clip #6
7) clip #7
8) clip #8
9) clip #9
10) clip #10 (Note: while this commercial is fairly well known, it’s also British. So yeah, this one’s hard.)
11) clip #11

Answers:

1) Beatles, Nike (“Revolution”)
2) Madonna, Pepsi (“Like a Prayer”)
3) Iggy Pop, Royal Caribbean (“Lust for Life”)
4) Sly and the Family Stone, Toyota (“Everyday People”)
5) Led Zeppelin, Cadillac (“Rock and Roll”)
6) Feist, Apple (“1234″)
7) The Cure, HP (“Pictures of You”)
8) Nick Drake, Volkswagen (“Pink Moon”)
9) The Concretes, Target (“Say Something New”)
10) Nina Simone, Chanel No. 5 (“My Baby Just Cares for Me”)
11) The Partridge Family (also accepted David Cassidy), Levi’s (“I Think I Love You”)

Round 3 at the Old Pequliar on July 1, 2008.
Average score: 6.41/10 (17 teams)

Triangulation is my tip of the hat to Wikipedia’s disambiguation pages and those seldom-used tertiary and sub-tertiary definitions in the dictionary. I’ll give you three definitions, you tell me the word or phrase that fits them all.

Example: A Canadian music award, a Roman goddess, and Roger Ebert’s favorite film of 2007: Juno

1) a kind of wrench, something you can make from socks, and something you spank
2) a novel by Irvine Welsh, a byproduct of horses, and the opposite of rubber
3) a documentary by Diane Keaton, a place where nothing ever happens, and a place on earth
4) the author of The Bonesetter’s Daughter, a key on a calculator, and a George Hamilton accessory
5) the shipboard computer in a science fiction classic, a John Lennon song, and something that turns wine to vinegar
6) one third of a popular hip-hop trio, a product formed by the neutralization of an acid by a base, and what we talked about when we talked about nukes
7) something you’d see on a slot machine, a U2 song, and a name you’ll hear on Must-See Thursday
8) an Edith Wharton novel, a lake in Oregon, and a lifeguard on Baywatch
9) Christopher Martin’s hip-hop alias, the NY Times’ online sports magazine, and “the work of children”
10) a celebritot, a unit of Smurf measurement, and a Newtown Pippin

Answers:

1) monkey
2) glue
3) heaven
4) tan
5) mother
6) salt
7) lemon
8) summer
9) play
10) apple

Every question or answer features a name short for, derived from, or a variation on Elizabeth.

1) Elizabeth I of England was the last monarch in which dynasty?
2) Who played Lizzie McGuire on the 2001-2004 Disney Channel series?
3) In the book Little Women, what illness does Beth die from?
4) Nina Simone had her only top 40 US hit with a song from what George Gershwin opera?
5) Dave Stevens, who created the graphic novel The Rocketeer, modeled the hero’s girlfriend after what 1950s pin-up queen?
6) What computer program, written in 1966, is a chatterbot that mimics the behavior of a Rogerian psychotherapist?
7) What company’s stock ticker symbol is LIZ?
8) Which Apple computer was supposedly named after Steve Jobs’ daughter?
9) Isabel Archer is the main character in what Henry James novel?
10) What role do Giselle Loren, Kristy Swanson, and Sarah Michelle Gellar have in common?

Average score, among 13 teams: 7.00.

1) Tudor
2) Hilary Duff
3) scarlet fever
4) Porgy and Bess
5) Bettie Page
6) ELIZA
7) Liz Claiborne, Inc.
8) the Lisa
9) The Portrait of a Lady
10) Buffy (Summers, the Vampire Slayer)

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on February 27, 2007.